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Man With Videos Depicting Rape, 'Sadistic Sexual Abuse Of Prepubescent Girls' Convicted In DC
Google helped nab a District man who was busted attempting to scrub child porn files depicting the rape and sadistic sexual abuse of prepubescent girls from his computer who was found guilty on charge porn offenses, federal authorities announced. Stephen Rattley Johnson, 36, is facing years in federal prison after being found guilty on a host of child porn charges when investigators in DC made grisly discoveries on his devices. According to court documents, in September and October 2020, Johnson uploaded hundreds of child porn files to his Google Drive account, which was flagged …
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Five Men Seeking Sex With Children Arrested In Fairfax County: Police
Five men who came to Fairfax County looking for sex with a child they'd met online were greeted by police, who swiftly took them into custody. "The offenders came to Fairfax County with the intention of committing a sex act with the minor, only to discover Child Exploitation Unit (CEXU) detectives and Street Crimes detectives waiting for them," county police said in a release. The five men ranged in age from 24-53 and were charged with a total of 12 felonies. They are: Steven Morales, 30, of Woodbridge: arrested and charged with Solicitation of a Minor and Attempted Indecent Libert…
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District Man Busted With Toddler Torture Porn In Southeast Heading To Prison: Feds
A District man who collected images and videos of child porn - some of which depicted the rape and torture of children as young as toddlers - will spend years in prison, federal authorities announced. Southeast DC resident Donte Mintz, 30, has been sentenced to 72 months in prison after pleading guilty last summer to attempted receipt of child pornography, which was accepted by a judge on Tuesday, April 2. According to court documents, Mintz possessed, received, and distributed child pornography in October 2020, which was flagged by an employee at Dropbox, who tipped off the…
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DC Sex Offender Admits To Uploading Self-Made Child Porn To Google Servers: Feds
A 41-year-old registered sex offender from Southeast DC who admitted to uploading graphic videos of himself sexually abusing a young girl has copped to the crime, federal authorities announced. Michael Humphrey, who has been a registered sex offender in DC since 2022, pleaded guilty on Monday to the sexual exploitation of a child after his Google account was found littered with imagery of his abuse of a 5-year-old girl. According to court documents, in July last year, Google reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that two Google accounts, later…
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Animal Sex Abuse Material, Child Porn Found During Probe Into Virginia Creep: Cops
A Fairfax County man is facing new charges, many of them horrifying, following his arrest earlier this month. Craig Strasbourger, 31, of Vienna, was found with animal sex abuse material, child pornography, and apparently solicited sex from a minor, Fairfax County police announced on Tuesday, Nov. 28. Strasbourger became the center of an investigation earlier this month following a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, saying he was believed to have been "engaging in sexual communication" with a child from Kentucky, FCPD said on Nov. 17. A SWAT raid…
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Virginia Child Exploitation Investigation Takes Unexpected Turn Upon SWAT Team's Discovery: PD
What started as an investigation into a man having sexually explicit conversations online led to the seizure of an illegal machine gun in Virginia, police said. Craig Strasbourger, 31, of Vienna, became the center of an investigation following a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Fairfax County police said. He was believed to have been "engaging in sexual communication" with a child from Kentucky, police said. Through their investigation, detectives determined Strasbourger lived in the 2100 block of Robin Way Court in Vienna. A SWAT team searc…
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US Capitol Police Officer Busted With Child Porn: Police
A 42-year-old US Capitol Police officer from Maryland was arrested after being found in possession of child porn, authorities said. Jared Michael Lemon, 42, of Owings, became the center of an investigation in December 2022, when troopers from the Maryland State Police Prince Frederick Barrack opened an investigation into the possession of child pornography, Maryland State Police said. The Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force also received a cybertip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that an online user, later identified as Lemon, had uploaded suspected …
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Yahoo! Leads Feds To 'Taboo' Child Porn Files In DC
A District man will spend more than a decade behind bars after being busted with multiple files depicting disturbing child porn, federal authorities announced. Donnell Rojas, 31, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the possession of child pornography following an investigation that led to several troubling discoveries. Rojas’ arrest came after police received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding a Yahoo! account that belonged to him. Prosecutors said that Rojas sent three emails attaching several files containing child sexual abuse materials to an…
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Virginia Man Convicted Of 75 Counts Of Child Porn Charges
A Virginia man has been convicted of nearly 75 counts of child porn charges, authorities said. Rodney Williams, 52, of Harrisonburg, was found in possession of hundreds of child porn files, during an August 2021 investigation, following a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), police in Harrisonburg said. Williams also shared images and videos with others, detectives found. He was subsequently charged with 50 counts of possessing child pornography, one count of distributing child pornography and 24 counts of distributing child pornography 2n…
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Prince George's Duo Convicted Of Sex Trafficking Minors By DC Jury: DOJ
Two Prince George’s County residents were hit with lengthy prison sentences after being convicted by a jury in Washington, DC for their roles in a sex trafficking operation involving teens, federal officials announced. Willis Lewis, 49, of Oxon Hill, and Brittany Jones, 33, of Suitland, will both be spending years behind bars after being found of multime criminal charges for the illegal operation involving two minors. Specifically, Lewis was sentenced to life, while Jones got 14 years for trafficking a 15-year-old and 17-year-old girl between April and May 2019. According to prosecutors, J…
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CASE: Child With Ties To Virginia Goes Missing From Awol Road In Lebanon
Twenty-two years after his disappearance authorities continue to search for Eric Pyles, also known as Nick Cagnow, who went missing on Dec. 12, 2000. children. Eric was last seen getting off his school bus @ the intersection of Awol Road & Silvertown Road on December 12th, 2000; instead of going home, he started walking towards the Jonestown Bible Church. A secretary @ the church told police a boy fitting Eric's description pic.twitter.com/XDIIFca5oC — Missing Persons Planet (@Home4theMissing) December 24, 2020 The Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers has renewed a plea for information on Py…
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Parole, Probation Officer From Delaware Admits To Downloading Child Porn In Pennsylvania: DA
A Lancaster County Probation and Parole officer was arrested on child pornography-related charges on Friday, Oct. 28, the County District Attorney's office announced on Monday, Oct. 31. Deric Paul Lilly, 45, previously of the 300 block of W. Charlotte Street in Manor Township, but now living in Delaware, was charged with four felony counts of possessing child pornography and two felony counts of criminal use of a communication facility. Detectives in Lancaster County had received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding an account that was used…
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Predator Posing At Teen Boy To Manipulate Underage Girls In Maryland Sentenced
A Mexican national living in Maryland has been sentenced to nearly two decades in prison for posing as a teenage boy on social media to entice underage girls to send him sexually explicit content, federal investigators announced. Angel Gabriel Arroyo-Angelino, 34, who resides in Easton, has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. US Attorney Erek Barron said that Arroyo admitted that he pretended to be a teenage boy on social media accounts, in order to induce mino…
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Sisters Reported Missing For Two Years Could Be In Maryland, DC Area: Reports
More than two years after a pair of sisters went missing with their mother, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is advising that they may be in the Maryland-Washington, DC area. Hanna Lee and Skye Rex, now 9 and 7 years old, were reported missing in March 2020 after allegedly being abducted by their mother, Lashanda Lee, 46, who is wanted on a felony warrant for custodial interference that was issued in June that year. This week, NCMEC released age-progressed photos of the missing children, who are possibly in the DMV area after being reported missing out of Wayn…
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Hospital Employee In Maryland Sentenced For Producing Child Porn Of An Unconscious Patient
A former hospital employee has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison after sexually assaulting minor victims while they were unconscious, authorities say. Donald Benson, 42, of Nottingham, assaulted the 15-year-old girl back in 2016 and possessed child pornography dating back to 1999, according to the Department of Justice. On Sept. 18, 2016, Benson, who was working as a patient sitter, assaulted the teenage girl while she was unconscious, prosecutors said. Benson took 13 pictures of the sexual assault and sent those pictures to his personal email account, using the birthdate o…
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Amber Alert Canceled For 9-Year-Old Maryland Girl Missing From Carroll County (
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An amber alert was canceled after a missing 9-year-old Maryland girl from Carroll County was found in Baltimore County. Savannah Heaton was with her aunt in Westminster when she was abducted by her 33-year-old sister, Magen Wallen on Tuesday, May 10, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (MCMEC). Savannah was found safe and unharmed while Wallen was taken into police custody.
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